Flotsam
Lithograph, 20" x 18", 2011
Whenever I look at a map of the world, I am amazed how far Hawaii is from anywhere else. The grouping is, in fact, the furthest pieces of land from anywhere else. And I find myself wondering how anyone found them and about the common bond among individuals willing to search out and populate these remotest of outcroppings. Like shoals in the middle of nowhere, the islands collect the drifters of the world.
Siddhartha
Lithograph, 21.5" x 14.5", 2004
Knowing the suffering that is part of Life, would you choose to be reborn?
Anniversary
Lithograph/woodcut, 21.5" x 14.5", 2005
Made to commemorate a parents' 60th wedding anniversary, two techniques are layered to be able to incorporate all the participants.
Nameste
Lithograph/woodcut/collage, 8" x 10", 2011
A self-portrait
Mother & Child
Etching, 15" x 11", 2003
Nature and nurture.
Identical bodies.
Identical shoes.
Yesterday's Children
Inked woodcut, lockets, photos, resin; 16-3/4" x 22-1/8" x 1-1/2"; 2015
Man's inhumanity to man - the Spanish Inquisition, Holocaust, Nanking, human trafficking, Darfur, 1938 Ukraine, Armenian genocide, 1942 Poland, Pol Pot's Cambodia - set against the precious remembrances of childhood photos - (clockwise from top) of Adolph Hitler, Mao Zedong, Kim Jong-il, Saddam Hussein, Joseph Stalin.
Where do these individuals come from? Are they born or bred?
Passages
Lithograph, 22.5" x 15", 2016
The decision to stay or to leave home has always been one of push/pull, known realities versus unknown possibilities.
This print is a narrative of astronomical and atmospheric forces, their impacts upon the planet's surface, and migrations of the creatures between, particularly humans.